WINDSOR — A small tornado struck at the heart of the state's famed tobacco valley Monday, flattening a swath of Connecticut's most valuable cash crop.

That made Tuesday a day of repair work, and of weather war stories, after a meteorological event rarely seen here.

The funnel cloud dropped from the sky at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Within two minutes, the twister blew down 20 acres of shade tobacco and destroyed another 40 acres of netting, irrigation and infrastructure at the 450-acre O.J. Thrall farm.

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